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My Hero, OPPENHEIMER | Episode 5 | Everything is Everything
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- J Robert Oppenheimer was an extraordinary man who dedicated himself to his field and his country -- and faced persecution from the mediocre and the venal.
Welcome to Episode 5 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.
In this episode, Ajay tells us the moving story of his hero, Oppenheimer -- and why that resonates with him. Amit talks about building cities and how power can corrode character. Listen in!
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Teaser and packaging
00:54 Introduction: Christopher Nolan -- An Auteur at Scale
07:13 Chapter 1: My Hero, Oppenheimer
42:48 Chapter 2: Ajay recommends the ultimate book on the atomic bomb
44:51 Chapter 3: Amit recommends a masterpiece that is the biography of a man and a city -- and how power corrupts.
USEFUL RESOURCES:
1. Amit on Twitter: / amitvarma
2. Ajay on Twitter: / ajay_shah
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: seenunseen.in/
(Also on all podcast apps. And RUclips, though less than 1% of listens come from here: www.youtube.com/@TheSeenAndTh...
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on RUclips: / @xkdr
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: amzn.eu/d/hwGILb3
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: indiauncut.com/clear-writing/
7. Oppenheimer -- Christopher Nolan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenhe...)
8. Arrival -- Denis Villeneuve: www.primevideo.com/detail/0HO...
9. Blade Runner 2049 -- Denis Villeneuve: www.primevideo.com/detail/0L5...
10. Blade Runner -- Ridley Scott: • Blade Runner
11. Dunkirk -- Christopher Nolan: www.primevideo.com/detail/0LT...
12. How to Write Well -- Tim de Lisle: amzn.eu/d/1RuuGdN
13. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns -- Robert Jungk: amzn.eu/d/ih9xcM4
14. The Making of the Atomic Bomb -- Richard Rhodes: amzn.eu/d/enRw8JG
15. The enduring legacy of Leo Szilard -- Ashutosh Jogalekar: wavefunction.fieldofscience.co...
16. Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt - 1939: www.atomicarchive.com/resourc...
17. Oppenheimer, Nullified and Vindicated -- Kai Bird: www.newyorker.com/culture/cul...
18. The US Government letter accepting its mistake on Oppenheimer: www.energy.gov/sites/default/...
19. The Four Quadrants of Conformism -- Paul Graham: www.paulgraham.com/conformism....
20. Our Unlucky Children (2008) -- Amit Varma: indiauncut.com/our-unlucky-ch...
21. Fixing Indian Education - Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan): • Ep 185: Fixing Indian ...
22. A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia -- Episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah): • Ep 335: A Deep Dive I...
23. The Poetic Feminism of Paromita Vohra -- Episode 339 of The Seen and the Unseen: • Ep 339: The Poetic Fem...
24. The Hedgehog And The Fox - Isaiah Berlin: amzn.eu/d/6J3c7jr
25. Jahnavi and the Cyclotron -- Episode 319 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jahnavi Phalkey): • Ep 319: Jahnavi and th...
26. Atomic State -- Jahnavi Phalkey: amzn.eu/d/gD2BVQ7
27. The Power Broker -- Robert Caro: amzn.eu/d/7U7Y6Ck
28. Robert Caro on Amazon: www.amazon.in/Robert-A-Caro/e...
29. On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges: kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borge...
30. The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Jane Jacobs: amzn.eu/d/3sRCeQd
31. Listen, The Internet Has SPACE -- Amit Varma: indiauncut.substack.com/p/10-...
Produced and edited by Vartika Singh: / @vartikasingh7 .
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with the sound: / gaurav_chintamani
Chapter images by Simahina: / i_am_simahina
Could listen to Ajay speak for hours
The greatest thing about Everything is Everything is how, when Ajay explains something, you realise how simple and logical it is.
And such a beautiful and moving summary of Oppenheimer, the man, the times, and his struggles.
These videos should be provided with Hindi subtitle so that a lot of people get their minds expanded.
Wonder why is this stuff free? The podcast and this has created an enormous body of knowledge free for all. It’s a public service of sizable proportions. Thanks Amit
Ajay, please accept my salutation. You are among the finest intellectual I have heard. Can listen to you in loop.
Agree. Thank you Amit and Ajay
Couldn't agree more. Amit advertises his course on clear writing, but gives away a free course on clear thinking and better living. 😊 I can't thank these two gentlemen enough for the enriching conversations. 🙏
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The culture that protects and prizes those mavericks is the culture that will create great extremities of truth and beauty. Word
There is a lot of good karma waiting for you two for doing this. Much much gratitude.
Excellent episode. I would also recommend Dan Carlins Hardcore History podcast "Destroyer of Worlds" for a sweeping view of the nuclear race.
Just started this episode, and with one of you excited and the other trepidated about Oppenheimer, I’d love to know what you both think of it when you finally watch it. Perhaps in the next episode…?
Ok, Back to the episode now, and thanks!
Cant thank Amit and Ajay enough for doing this initiative. With each episode, I just learn so much there is to stretch my mind in to! Thank you
Amit, great work in keeping the conversation honest, & Ajay, thanks for getting in pure objectivity. Sublime.
I'm a bit surprised that they ignored American Prometheus, a Pulitzer-winning biography of Oppenheimer, which also served as the inspiration for the Nolan movie.Excellent episode nevertheless.
Picking up pace with every episode although episode 4 remains my favourite so far. Waiting eagerly for that episode on urban planning.
Did anyone else notice that at 38.40 Ajay Shah says "He would innovate on the fly". And exactly at that moment a fly lands on his right shoulder.
It's good to see Amit Varma on RUclips. Have been listening to you since 2020. It is always a pleasure and great learning listen to your podcasts
Can't wait for the urban planning episode! Perfect time to catch up on Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." 😄
Very enjoyable exchange , watched the whole thing with just a single break.
Ajay's insightful observation on the discomfort and indifference of men in power to the more thoughtful advisers around them, made for a worrying note in the Indian context, especially when the men in power in this case seek wisdom in scriptures and the past. While their policy on innovative technology will probably be more welcoming. This might not be the case in the fundamental Sciences, where the Nehru-Bhabha vision that gave us TIFR /IISc is in danger of getting diluted. 'Fundamental science is corrosive to religion' and must therefore be suppressed might be the dark direction taken.
Thank you Ajay and Amit for an engaging conversation.
What a great conversation! Thank you for doing this.
This begs a review of the movie! Please do consider it.
Exactly! Would have loved them talking about Oppenheimer after watching the movie
Ahhhh such an amazing episode
Listening about Openheimer and Ajay recommending Richard Rhodes's book on the nuclear bomb got me thinking, though AI and Artificial General Intelligence gets all the limelight about how it is the next big thing in science and technology and how it will change everything, I think the greatest scientific and technological breakthrough, in terms of impact on human civilization, in the next decade will be - nuclear fusion as a viable source of energy and human longevity research.
Earlier this year Lawrence Livermore labs had a breakthrough in fusion technology and I think in the next 10 years we will be able to use nuclear fusion to produce cheap and abundant energy for all humans.
With regards to longevity, just like how our generation sees 75 as the age of retirement, I think the generation that is getting born now will be seeing 100 as the age of retirement. They will be able to live vigorous and active public life well into the age of 100.
Nuclear fusion: For a long time, the equipment is going to be expensive. So while the cost of raw material is 0, there is a very high cost of capital. My thoughts on the energy scene run more towards the mundane: solar (break past the shockley-queisser limit, drive cost down), wind, storage, and maybe geologic hydrogen!
Rising longevity is surely coming, and it's a particularly big thing for people in India where a big change takes place from my fathers generation to mine.
@@ajayshah5705 About Nuclear Fusion - Yea I think I got carried away when I said we will have cheap and abundant energy in 10 years, but there will be some sort of a breakthrough. Do check out this book called "The Future Of Fusion Energy" by Jason Parisi and Justin Ball. I have not read the book, have only read a summary and review of the book from a reliable source, and it seems very promising.
Great episode, exhilarating !
Great insights . thanks for the episode .. @ajay Think you will like this movie. Though i felt the movie shows things only in USA POV.. . @amit That soft toy looks creepy in same frame as you. sorry. XD
very excited to listen to this episode !
Very enjoyable. I watch this show without fail. The range of subjects Ajay Shah can take is impressive.
As regards Oppenheimer, it isn't easy to believe that a man of such brilliance could not understand the ramifications of making an atomic
Bomb. Bombs are made not for keeping as show pieces. The regret he felt is understandable.
Can't wait
Your introduction - "Oppenheimer was as extraordinary man who faced persecution from the mediocre and the venal"....it's sad that he didn't face any persecution from the moral and the humane!
Very good step to convert your podcast into the Video form as well.
Wow you are on video podcast .... that's great....plz do all your episode in video format plz...if you can the seen and unseen podcast in this format...
Also make one on Alan Turing
Wow
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Fantastic episode!
Ajay's breadth and depth of knowledge are amazing, to say the least.
Here's a recommendation from my side on Oppenheimer's life ruclips.net/video/nAz6lkosNcA/видео.html
Great stuff guys, just a suggestion, the videos can
be a little longer and deeper. We aren't saturated in an hour.
How does a person who speaks so slow, read so fast?
With all due respect to Ajay, he's wrong wrt Oppenheimer being an experimentalist. In fact Robert was exceptionally bad at doing experimental physics and was chosen to head the MED, since Gen Groves felt that he could be controlled on the basis of his past leftist connections
Do tell us more.
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Also, the text of American Prometheus mentions this at the start
I'm 32 mins into the video and there's not one mention of the whole process of building and using a brutal weapon of mass destruction being a big tragedy. Using epithets like "my hero", "spectacular" for a science person who believed that the bomb would end war for good and willingly followed orders from the military is just cringe!! How about describing him as a foolish, naive scientist who was so consumed by his hubris that he locked up all his morals and remorse for after the bomb was made and used.....the whole narrative of this episode is just so sad and sickening.
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If Oppenheimer didnt invent some other could had done that. Teller or Heisenberg or Russian.
Europe already split uranium with neutrons.
Manhattan project is about scaling the fission either implosion or explosion.
Imagine 6 years of continuos unending war.
Once huge power is demonstrated there expected to be peace for some period.
But politics used it for dollar supremacy
Also after that moderation with cadmium was invented for nuclear power